Contents

Introduction

 

PART 1 A STARTING PLACE: A JULY AFTERNOON

Elvis Presley’s Leap for Freedom

 

PART 2 SETTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORIES

Beatles Then, Beatles Now

Subterranean: Bob Dylan’s Passages

The Rolling Stones’ Journey into Fear

The Legacy of Jim Morrison and the Doors

 

PART 3 REMAKING THE TERRITORIES

Lou Reed: Darkness and Love

Brothers: The Allman Brothers Band

Keith Jarrett’s Keys to the Cosmos

Life & Death in the U.K.: The Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Joy Division, New Order, and the Jesus and Mary Chain

The Clash: Punk Beginnings, Punk Endings

Punk: Twenty Years After

Van Halen: The Endless Party

 

PART 4 DREAMS AND WARS

Bruce Springsteen’s America

The Problem of Michael Jackson

Upstarts: Over & Under the Wall, & into the Territory’s Center

Clash of the Titans: Heavy Metal Enters the 1990s

 

PART 5 LONE VOICES

Randy Newman: Songs of the Promised Land

Al Green: Sensuality in the Service of the Lord

Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer

Miles Davis: The Lion in Winter

Feargal Sharkey: Songs of Hearts and Thieves

Marianne Faithfull: Trouble in Mind

Stan Ridgway’s Wrong People

Sinéad O’Connor’s Songs of Experience

David Baerwald’s Songs of Secrets and Sins

 

PART 6 ENDINGS

Dark Shadows: Hank Williams, Nick Drake, Phil Ochs

Tim Hardin: Lost Along the Way

Dennis Wilson: The Lone Surfer

Marvin Gaye: Troubled Soul

No Simple Highway: The Story of Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead

Tupac Shakur: Easy Target

Ella Fitzgerald: Grace Over Pain

Timothy Leary: The Death of the Most Dangerous Man

Allen Ginsberg: For the Fucking and the Dying

Kurt Cobain’s Road from Nowhere: Walking the Streets of Aberdeen

 

PART 7 A LAST LATE-NIGHT CALL

Frank Sinatra

 

Publication Credits

Permissions

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also By Mikal Gilmore

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